Migrating properties

Determine the values required for the properties file of the generic probe. As shown in Configuring the probe there are two groups of properties:

  • Required settings that all installations of the probe must have.
  • Optional settings that related to features that are not mandatory.

Use the properties file for the system-specific probe to set the correct values in the generic probe.

Required settings

The required settings relate to the following:

  • CORBA connection method
  • Authentication
  • TMF release version in use

There are two ways of connecting to the CORBA interface, as shown in Connecting to the CORBA interface. From the implementation in the system specific probe, determine which you want to use on the generic probe and set the properties accordingly. Note that the names of properties for using a Naming Service to establish the connection differ in the generic probe, as the following table shows:

Table 1. CORBA connection properties
System-specific probe Generic probe
ORBInitialHost NamingServiceHost
ORBInitialPort NamingServicePort
NamingContextIORFile NamingServiceIORFile

Copy the values for the authentication properties from the system-specific properties file to the file for the generic probe.

The ReleaseTMF814 property is found only in the generic probe. Set this property to the version of the TMF814 standard that the NMS or EMS implements.

Optional settings

Optional settings relate to features of the probe that a site may decide to use or not, as their business requires:

  • Resynchronization policy
  • Reconnection policy
  • Inactivity policy
  • Heartbeat policy
  • Support for Unicode and non-Unicode characters
  • Peer-to-peer failover pair
  • HTTP/HTTPS command interface
  • Running multiple instances of the probe

The table in Configuring the probe lists the properties associated with each feature. For features that you use in the system-specific probe, set the values of the generic probe properties to appropriate values. For features that you do not use in the system-specific probe, or that the system-specific probe does not provide, decide on the values to use and set the generic properties file accordingly. Follow the advice in the sections referenced in the configuration table for details of how to set the properties.

Note that the generic probe uses different names for some properties to those used in the system-specific probes, as the following table shows:

Table 2. Properties with different names in the generic probe
System-specific property Generic property
AgentHeartbeat HeatbeatInterval
ExcludeSeverityCleared
ExcludeSeverityCritical
ExcludeSeverityIndeterminate
ExcludeSeverityMajor
ExcludeSeverityMinor
ExcludeSeverityWarning		 ResyncSeverityFilter
Resynch InitialResync
ResyncInterval
ResynchBatchSize ResyncBatchSize
Retry RetryCount
RetryInterval
Timeout Inactivity

In particular notice that there is no direct correspondence between the properties that filter alarms by severity. From the system-specific probe's properties file, determine the severities that you want to filter and then construct the appropriate value for the ResyncSeverityFilter property of the generic probe. Properties and command line options defines the format for the value of the ResyncSeverityFilter property.